MySQL installation troubles ...

[Chris Strzelczyk]

Try compiling instead of using pkg_add.  I've noticed this will work 
more often as packages are not available sometimes.

Make install all clean

Should do you well.

-cs

Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install MySQL server & client from the packages 
> collection with no success. Being a FreeBSD newbie I will need your 
> help. Please check the following:
>
> mazenbsd# pkg_add -r mysql-server
> Fetching 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Latest/mysq 
>                         l-server.tgz... Done.
> Fetching 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All/p5-DBD- 
>                         mysql-2.1026_1.tgz... Done.
> pkg_add: could not find package mysql-client-4.0.15 !
> pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1' failed!
> Fetching 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/All/mysql-c 
>                         lient-4.1.0.tgz... Done.
>
> What I understood is p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1.tgz package depends on the 
> mysql-client-4.0.15 package which cannot be found (how? why?) and 
> instead the mysql-client-4.1.0.tgz package was installed. All in all 
> the server installation failed.
>
> What should I do to fix this?
>
> TIA
>
> Cheers,